La Spectre de la Rose (choreographic tableux)
Article. Music by Carl Maria von Weber, orchestrated by Hector Berlioz; libretto by Jean-Louis Vaudoyer, after a poem by Théophile Gautier; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 19 April 1911, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo. This ballet featured only two dancers and Fokine described the intimate stage setting as “a tiny room, the two walls of which meet...

Narcisse (ballet in 1 act)
Music by Nikolai Tcherepnin; libretto by Léon Bakst; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Michel Fokine; premiere on 26 April 1911, Théâtre de Monte-Carlo, Monte Carlo.

Contributor:
Tcherepnin, Nikolai - Bakst, Léon - Fokine, Michel

Date:1911-04-26

Article

Petrouchka (ballet in four tableux)
Article. Nijinska also discusses her brother Vaslav Nijinsky’s performance at the end of the work: “With an agonizing pain and sadness in his eyes, he extends a trembling arm in farewell to the crowd, knowing that only they, the gray, common, Russian crowd, love and understand Petrouchka. The heavy wooden head hangs to one side, and the tragic eyes stare out of the grotesque,...

L' Après-Midi d'un Faune (choreographic poem)
Article. Music by Claude Debussy; libretto based on a poem by Stéphane Mallarmé; sets and costumes by Léon Bakst; choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky; premiere on 29 May 1912, Théâtre du Châtelet, Paris. Nijinsky’s stark and erotic choreography was criticized by the Parisian press as obscene. Dancer and actress Ida Rubinstein agreed to perform the role of the Nymph but, after only one rehearsal, she...

Le Sacre du Printemps (ballet in 2 acts)
Article. In her diary, Bronislava Nijinska relates the events surrounding the appointment of Marie Rambert as an assistant to Nijinsky for Le Sacre. After visiting the studio of Jacques-Dalcroze, Diaghilev claimed that “he was concerned that our artists would not be able to master the difficult rhythms…and that he had invited Dalcroze’s best pupil…to teach us eurhythmics. I was burning with indignation and protested...

Contributor:
Stravinsky, Igor - Roerich, Nikolai - Nijinsky, Vaslav

Date:1913-05-29

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Till Eulenspiegel (ballet)
Article. Music by Richard Strauss; libretto by Vaslav Nijinsky, after Charles de Costersets and costumes by Robert Edmond Jones; choreography by Vaslav Nijinsky; premiere on 23 October 1916, Manhattan Opera House, New York.